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title: [58] Mr. Fergusson writes: “Another Indian told me some stories that… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics
description: [58] Mr. Fergusson writes: “Another Indian told me some stories that he had heard from his grandmother, who could speak the Ojibwa tongue. Who acts: Fergusson, Indian, grandmother. A sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Phonetic Key., 
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# Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 122

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\[58\] Mr. Fergusson writes: “Another Indian told me some stories that he had heard from his grandmother, who could speak the Ojibwa tongue.

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**Who acts:** Fergusson, Indian, grandmother · **What happens:** write, tell, hear, speak · **To what, where:** 58, stories, Indian, Ojibwa tongue · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Phonetic Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fergusson, Indian, grandmother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66509:21:122
# text = [58] Mr. Fergusson writes: “Another Indian told me some stories that he had heard from his grandmother, who could speak the Ojibwa tongue.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	58	58	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Fergusson	Fergusson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Ojibwa	Ojibwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | Fergusson  Mr. | 58 |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | another Indian | some stories | another Indian *= indian* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Fergusson |  |  |  |  | from Fergusson's grandmother | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from grandmother=Source |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | could | Fergusson's grandmother | the Ojibwa tongue |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Project Gutenberg book 66509 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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